Blue Origin succeeds another missile test

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Blue Origin succeeds another missile test

Three Attempts, three successes: The private US space companies are likely to be with his reusable rocket New Shepard. Not only the Start, the landing worked.

“Takeoff and landing perfectly,” tweeted Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos after the third successful Test. The rocket New Shepard had succeeded not just the Start but also the subsequent upright landing at the test site in Texas without any problems.

Also, in the Test unmanned crew capsule had landed using parachutes and without prejudice to, said Bezos, who also founded the successful Internet retailer Amazon.

Elon Musk is likely to annoy

The first two test flights of the New Shepard at the end of November and in January were successful. So that Blue Origin is in the race for the serial production of a reusable space rocket, so to speak, the “pole position”.

Successful at Start and landing: For the third Time, a test succeeded in flight of the New Shepard rocket, Blue Origin

The US competitor Space X of the Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk, currently feverishly working on a series of missile that is destroyed after a completed Mission tires, but on the earth, and lands and used again. However, the rockets from Space X have so far had significantly more problems in the country.

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cw/qu (afp, dpa, ape, rtre)